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How Necessary Should Parking Be in Your Apartment Search?

Parking is one crucial factor to consider when searching for a new apartment, especially if you're taking a commute. An excellent parking spot can be a wonderful bonus when you finally find the perfect apartment. However, your budget, location, and lifestyle might make parking less significant. When searching for your apartment, one should consider their vehicular situation with respect to parking. Do you own a car? This should be the very first question you might wa...

Apartment Cleaning Resolutions for 2019

While it may be long after the beginning of 2019, you can still make a pledge to keep your apartment clean. If you want to accomplish this, here are a few tips that may help you along the way: Clean out your refrigerator The refrigerator is one of the most important appliances in the kitchen. When disinfecting the refrigerator, make sure you wash the shelves thoroughly and allow it to dry before putting them back into the fridge. Also look for expired or moldy food. Make...

Dusting Tips for A Cleaner Home

The feather duster is the time-honored dusting tool, but nowadays there are several alternatives that have proved to be just as effective. Here’s a list of them: 1. Lint roller A lint roller can be amazingly useful for dusting several areas of your home. A lint roller can be used to dust curtains, lamp shades, and upholstery. Also, a lint roller does an excellent dusting job when used on glass shelves and bookshelves. 2. Use a coffee filter for electroni...

How to Make The Most of Your Bathroom Space

Your bathroom holds a lot of daily essentials. Now, if you have a lot of makeup to arrange, here are some easy ways to organize your makeup collection in a bathroom and maximize the amount of space that you have available to work with: 1. Put your makeup into containers and label them You can use transparent plastic jars and put same types of makeup inside. You can then use a sticky note to add a label with the makeup tool’s name so that it is easy to identify. Thi...

Things You Should Keep Out of Sight When Expecting Visitors

When you are expecting visitors, you need to take a few minutes and get away from the usual routine and put your apartment in order. Whenever you are expecting visitors to your home, there are many things that you should make sure are not in sight. Here are some of them 1. Dirty laundry Dirty laundry out in the open will give your visitors a bad impression. At the very least, be sure to move your dirty clothes somewhere out of sight. Put them in a hamper, your washing ma...

Questions to Ask A Prospective Roommate

Regardless of your reasons for thinking about getting a roommate, you need to ask some questions to have a good idea of what you may be getting yourself into. What is your daily routine? This helps you to understand what living with the roommate would be like. You can use this information to estimate how much you will see them. How do you spend your weekends? This question can also help you to discover their activities, interests and things you may ...

3 Resilient Houseplants to Keep

Houseplants are a great way to add some character and life to your home. The problem lies in taking care of them; plants like Orchids are beautiful but require close attention to stay alive. The following are a three tough species of plant that will have no problem surviving in your apartment: 1. Snake Plant This plant is also referred to as the Mother-in-Law’s Tongue. You can leave a Snake plant unattended for weeks without water or light and they will still grow ...

Tips for Keeping Your Carpet Clean

Getting a permanent stain on your carpet is never good, especially if it dries. Getting a stain out of your carpet can be an arduous task, and it happens all the time. Here are a few ways to keep your carpet clean: The dull side of a butter knife does a great job of helping you to scrape and scoop up any part of the spill that is yet to soak into your carpet. This helps to prevent the stain from becoming more difficult to clean and permeating deeper in your rug, ...

How to Make The Best of The Parking Garage

If you live in an apartment complex with a parking garage, be sure to follow these tips: Park properly One of the most annoying things in a parking garage is why you are unable to open your door because the person next to you has parked too close to you. Be kind and considerate to your neighbors when you park your car by making sure that they also have enough space to access their cars. Drive slowly You have absolutely no reason to go faster than 15...

How to adorn your apartment with art for less

Art is without a doubt the greatest form of expression to add some tasteful character to your apartment. Here are some of the best ways to adorn your apartment with art for less: 1. Take advantage of frames The right frame can turn a nice picture into a masterpiece for your living room. Frames are cheap can be found in most stores. It’s easy to find a frame that complements your home. 2. DIY photographs Today’s smartphones have such a hi...